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Mar 26 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Another abduction!

Yesterday, the mayor of Slavutych (25,000 people) reported that Russian snipers entered the otherwise cutoff city. This morning, the city hall posted pictures of pro-🇺🇦 protests. Now, news are breaking that Russians kidnapped the mayor Yuri Fomichev.
Source is the head of the Kyiv Civilian Military Administration Oleksandr Pavliuk. He also stated that Russian forces took over the local hospital in Slavutych.

nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/ev…
This is a video of this morning’s protests in Slavutych. Just for context: the city was cutoff from 🇺🇦 supply lines for over two weeks and the mayor warned continuously of a humanitarian catastrophe. These citizens aren’t broken, they remain defiant 👇
nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/ev…
The mayor of Slavutych was released and briefly spoke at the rally. One resident of Slavutych was injured during a rally against the Russians, in which the Russian military fired into the air and fired teargas at people.
The mayor of Slavutych also stated that he negotiated with the Russian forces who promised to pull out of the city by the afternoon. Let’s see whether they actually pull out…

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Mar 27
I just read this interview of @unian with Vadim Boychenko, the Mayor of Mariupol. Hopefully this will be translated to English.

The mayors says that according to the city’s estimates, about 20 to 30 thousand residents were forcibly deported to Russia. /1

unian.net/war/mer-mariup…
The mayor tells UNIAN that the city remains surrounded since the fifth day of the war. “They used the fascist approach,” the mayor says and adds that the Russian forces deliberately besiege the city and target all of its critical infrastructure.  /3
In the first days of the siege the Russians destroyed all power lines in the city. On the 7th day the city was left without electricity and heating. The Russians deliberately targeted the city’s water pumps. On the 9th, the water supply collapsed. After that gas was cut off. /4
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Mar 25
It is difficult to keep track of the developments in the occupied territory. Here are observations from the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which I like many others monitor closely. A thread 🧵 /1
The general trend remains the same: locals remain defiant and continue to protest nearly daily in cities in the Kherson and Zaporizhia region. Meanwhile, the occupation forces become more brutal and we hear of more abductions on a daily basis. /2
Before we get to the detention: in the past days, we hear more news of the ongoing "Russification". Across the occupied territories, Ukrainian books are confiscated and destroyed. Moreover, Russian was introduced as the local language in some places. /3
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Mar 24
The mayor of Melitopol spoke on 🇺🇦 TV about a looming humanitarian crisis in the city, with food and medicine running out. Humanitarian aid was sent this morning from Zaporizhzhia but held up in Russian checkpoints for 8h… /1
radiosvoboda.org/a/news-melitop…
The aid is now on the way to Melitopol but the mayor in exile fears that it might be plundered by Russian occupation forces.

The mayor said that the Russian military was "behaving horribly" in the city, kidnapping people and conducting illegal searches of businessmen. /2
Fedorov also spoke about attempts by the Russians to force teachers to start teaching Russian in schools. After the local education department refused to cooperate with them, they, according to the mayor, began to put direct pressure on schools. /3
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Mar 23
Behind each Russian war crime are stories of individuals, like this one.
Together with his family, the 14-year old Yuri was in the occupied Bucha without access to food and water for two weeks. On 17 March, Yuri and his father Ruslan were on their way to collect food and aid. /1
when Russian soldiers confronted them. Both clearly identified themselves as unarmed civilians with white armbands to identify themselves as such. The Russians shot and killed Yuri's father (no warning shots, aiming for head and breast). They shot at and wounded Yuri. /2
According to the boy, he lay on the ground for several more minutes after the occupier tried to kill him. When he left, Yuri ran to the nearest shelter. It turned out to be a local kindergarten, where he received first-aid. /3
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Mar 23
This morning, I spoke with the @bbcworldservice about abductions in the Russian occupied 🇺🇦 territory.

The number of those are rising as the local population continues to peacefully resist the occupation. A small 🧵 /1
Abductions are taking place in all Russian (!) controlled territories in 🇺🇦 from the north, east and south to the center.

Due to the nature of this war and in some places limited internet /phone connection and few reporters on the ground there the exact figures are unknown. /2
So far, there is not ONE register of those who were disappeared. But those tracking the cases (incl. me) saw local officials, city councilors, journalists, activists, priests and many regular folks who oppose the occupation disappear. /3
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Mar 22
Today, I listened to a press conference of 🇺🇦 mayors, including the Deputy Mayor of Mariupol Sergey Orlov, who described the levels of destruction in the city, and said the once-bustling city has become a city of tears and death. /1
Orlov says that Russians are pounding the city with an average of 100 bombs per day, by rockets, artillery, by tanks, by air raids, and by Russian warships. /2
About 90% of Mariupol's houses are damaged, many of them completely destroyed. More than 3,000 residents were killed but these are only the ones the city could count. /3
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